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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






2. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.






3. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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4. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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5. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






6. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






7. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






8. Closed syllable






9. Whole body learning






10. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






11. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






12. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.






13. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






14. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






15. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






16. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






17. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






18. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.






19. State Board of Eduation






20. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.






21. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






22. Multisensory Structured Language Education






23. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

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24. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.






25. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.






26. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






27. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale






28. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






29. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn






30. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






31. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






32. English as a second language






33. Ability to understand and express spoken language






34. Multisensory Structured Language






35. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






36. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






37. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






38. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.






39. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






40. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






41. Final stable syllable

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42. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents






43. Individual Educational Plan






44. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






45. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






46. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






47. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail






48. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






49. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.






50. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.